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On xfce in the past I would install icons or even install through package manager and get an ! with a warning on the icon cache is missing.

Well I used the terminal typing in the long command and it would not work sometimes. I did a workaround instead that is a lot easier with no typing a huge path either.

Now make a new text file on the desktop named "icon-theme.cache" no " of course.

No if xfce open thunar then go to file system and then usr/share/icons then right click on icons folder and open as root or open thunar by sudo thunar or su then thunar and you have a root thunar.

Now you do that so you can edit files in the root file system and we are only pasting but that still requires root privilege.

Now open appearances and go to second tab icons. You see the ! next to some icon theme names and if you hold cursor over the ! it'll have a warning about no cache file for icons. I found it's just an empty text file that is needed there.

Now using root thunar open the icons folder usr/share/icons and then in appearance icon tab start at top move down noting each icon theme with an !.

On desktop copy the file you made earlier "not cut but copy" and then in thunar right click on the name in the appearce/ icon that needed a cache file. Lets use the name shawn for instance. right click on shawn folder and choose paste, now do this with each icon name in appearance that had the ! till done.

Now a twist, now if one is still holding an ! after you restart appearances window to refresh then it was installed in the home folder under a hidden folder for me it would be in thunar root or non root thunar got to top and click view then click show hidden files and a bunch of folder will appear.

Now for the buuf icon theme "the best one I believe really done by actual artist" it was /home/shawn/.local/share/icons/ , note the .local that would be before all files not having a . in front of the folder name you might actually be able to copy that path and change shawn to your systems name which is likely your username and go to that folder for the icon themes. Then do the same thing paste that icon-theme.cache into the icons folder with the name of the icon theme that still needs a cache file.

This is the lazy fast way to do all this instead of mistyping paths in the terminal then rereading trying to figure out where you fucked up. And then hitting the up arrow to have the last command come up and changing the icon folder name each time.

I wrote this because I just fixed all the caches in around 2 minutes including making the text file on the desktop to copy and paste into each folder though you only have to copy once paste 20 times or however many icon themes need a cache file.

On xfce in the past I would install icons or even install through package manager and get an ! with a warning on the icon cache is missing. Well I used the terminal typing in the long command and it would not work sometimes. I did a workaround instead that is a lot easier with no typing a huge path either. Now make a new text file on the desktop named "icon-theme.cache" no " of course. No if xfce open thunar then go to file system and then usr/share/icons then right click on icons folder and open as root or open thunar by sudo thunar or su then thunar and you have a root thunar. Now you do that so you can edit files in the root file system and we are only pasting but that still requires root privilege. Now open appearances and go to second tab icons. You see the ! next to some icon theme names and if you hold cursor over the ! it'll have a warning about no cache file for icons. I found it's just an empty text file that is needed there. Now using root thunar open the icons folder usr/share/icons and then in appearance icon tab start at top move down noting each icon theme with an !. On desktop copy the file you made earlier "not cut but copy" and then in thunar right click on the name in the appearce/ icon that needed a cache file. Lets use the name shawn for instance. right click on shawn folder and choose paste, now do this with each icon name in appearance that had the ! till done. Now a twist, now if one is still holding an ! after you restart appearances window to refresh then it was installed in the home folder under a hidden folder for me it would be in thunar root or non root thunar got to top and click view then click show hidden files and a bunch of folder will appear. Now for the buuf icon theme "the best one I believe really done by actual artist" it was /home/shawn/.local/share/icons/ , note the .local that would be before all files not having a . in front of the folder name you might actually be able to copy that path and change shawn to your systems name which is likely your username and go to that folder for the icon themes. Then do the same thing paste that icon-theme.cache into the icons folder with the name of the icon theme that still needs a cache file. This is the lazy fast way to do all this instead of mistyping paths in the terminal then rereading trying to figure out where you fucked up. And then hitting the up arrow to have the last command come up and changing the icon folder name each time. I wrote this because I just fixed all the caches in around 2 minutes including making the text file on the desktop to copy and paste into each folder though you only have to copy once paste 20 times or however many icon themes need a cache file.

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I've never used Manjaro so I have no idea what your BIOS would have to do with your high level OS and file system.

I'm just saying you could automate the file creation. Maybe try deleting a few of the files and see if you can replicate the issue, then try just making a simple script to do the searching of the subfolders to check if the file exists and if it doesn't exist in that subfolder create it with the cat command and give it the proper file permissions.

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Well my bios revert to crm "windows boot" mode if the battery is dead from efi mode so it's slower and the audio onboard and lan are activated when i don't need them and the virtualization is deactivated so no programs or distros that use it work or they crash unexpectedly. THis things bios settings are default windows and underperform.

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WTF is your setup and install?

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It's the motherboard is a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max II, got great ratings and people said it ran linux great thought they give linux no support. Got Manjaro XFCE and running now Suse "Gecko" XFCE Rolling latest release and I love it. The motherboard was also losing date time with the dead battery so I couldn't do anything online till I used online time synchronization since it wouldn't let me connect and use the internet besides the most basic of things with incorrect time for some reason the ISP DNS refuses to cooperate like it's a security snag your clock being wrong which is rediculous thing to do to a user and with manjaro trying to set the time to universal and not local even though the setup asks for my timezone NY it tries to set my hardware clock to the prime meridian time zone "england" which is stupid since it's got US Keyboard setup and us Language.

THis is one of the Linux pet peaves I have using the England time zone, it's likely that only less than 10% of users are in that time zone in the world so they shouldn't push that shit on everyone or try to change the administrators hardware clock either its rude as fuck in my opinion pushing that English bullshit on me just because they have the prime meridien doesn't mean shit to me.